Intel, Cray bag $200m to build 180PFLOPS super for US nuke boffins

Monster Aurora machine to slurp 13MW crunching numbers on fuel and more

Intel and Cray have landed a $200m deal to build a 180-petaFLOPS supercomputer dubbed Aurora for the US Department of Energy. Intel will provide the chips – expected to include next-gen 10nm Knights Hill processor cores – and Cray will integrate it all together.…